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Presented by Nicolas Bailly and Maria Lourdes (Deng) Palomares at WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia, 25 June 2012
The current status of FishBase and SeaLifeBase will be presented: data available, current projects, links with AquaMaps, near future focuses, etc. The current efforts to publish reports on complete marine species list by area will be presented, which would lead to propose complete list by country. This is a change in our usual methodology that requires some explanations.
Nicolas will also briefly report on the last week Fish Barcode conference and the interest for studies conducted by WorldFish around the world to facilitate and improve finfish (and other groups) identification.

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FishBase and SeaLifeBase: current status and efforts to complete lists by areas:

Outline:

Outline FishBase status and projects: also recommendation for citing fish species numbers SeaLifeBase status and projects Reminder on AquaMaps and Catalogue of Life Efforts to get complete lists by country Fish-BoL: barcoding for quick identification

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9 FishBase Consortium Members WorldFish Center Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel Swedish Museum of Natural History Africamuseum, Tervuren Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences

Number of species per FAO area without introduced species:

Belize:

Belize This contribution was made possible through collaboration between the Sea Around Us Project (UBC, Vancouver, Canada), the SeaLifeBase Project (funded by the Oak Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland), and FishBase Information and Research Group (Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines).

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Belize in FishBase

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Belize in SeaLifeBase

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Belize in SeaLifeBase

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Includes 21 contributions, some of which were not presented in this conference.

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FishBase and SeaLifeBase data from >1000 scientific articles listed in a bibliography provided here, about 500 of which are made available in pdf format in this website. Belize in Sea Around Us

What are these databases useful for?:

What are these databases useful for? Though our data recovery work continues, the critical mass of data presented through FishBase and SeaLifeBase can be used as a starting point for more detailed initiatives, for example national species assessments.

Red List:

CITES:

CITES Includes transient species of marine mammals; Caiman and American crocodiles; Green, Hawksbill, Leatherback, Loggerhead turtles; Hard corals and Fire corals; Pink conch; FishBase does not have the CITES table yet. 85 species listed occurring in Belize

Complete country lists in FishBase: basis for FAO areas:

Complete country lists in FishBase: basis for FAO areas So far in FB, use of secondary literature (FAO catalogues, large ichthyofaunas, national checklists and ichthyofaunas) Change of procedure using a baseline reference for all species / freshwaters / marine coastal / marine deep sea Adding references from that reference to keep the list complete Take into account occurrence data

Collaborations:

Collaborations Have national contact colleagues for a closer collaboration Develop tools for a better monitoring When possible, better to link with national databases to get the national status of occurrences, while linking for details within country Just starting a table with minimal trade size (in the Mediterranean)

Fish-BoL: www.fishbol.org:

Fish-BoL: www.fishbol.org www.boldsystems.org

Principle:

Principle One (part of) gene sequenced for all animals: mitochondrial CO-I Sequence associated with a voucher specimen with validated identification Computation of genetic distance for identification Some known issues: groups where it does not work, hybrids, …

Importance for WorldFish work:

Importance for WorldFish work Paradigm shift about number of fish species: the case of Neotropical region Will have implication on natural resources management (both exploitation and conservation) Quick identification in many situations, now better than specialists Identify genetic resource, e.g., for genetically improved strains Importance of keeping voucher specimens + tissues